honey correction

[Guest guest]

Hi, What ever happened to natural??? AND, WHY must soy be in everything.

Please read about soy --- do bees eat soy naturally? Do they eat

buckwheat?? Do they eat powdered sugar. Saying that you treat them with

this is like saying my reward to my child for a job well done is

honey(SHOULD HAVE SAID CANDY) OOPS... It is just insane. We want natural -

no incipients, fillers or adulterations. Could you please help us in this

cause? Thanks

 

Nancy

[Guest guest]

What a I forwarded here was from an organic farmer - here is his reply to

your comment - I posted it 12 hours ago but it hasn't come through

 

Jane

 

In response to your queries ;

 

Honeybees collect soy pollen and nectar only when soy is grown in rich

fertile (river) bottom land. I grow envy (OP) soy beans along the

Cumberland/Ohio Rivers. Maybe your soy isn't natural, but mine sure is.

 

Buckwheat produces first bloom within 6 weeks (normally) of seeding. Yes

honeybees 'eat' buckwheat normally. Study buckwheat blooms and their dark

nectar and pollen. Buckwheat honey is dark and rich - much the color of

cotton honey. I think that dark honey is more nutrient packed due to late

harvesting of herbs that also bloom late. Perhaps that'd be something else

to study.

 

Powdered sugar is spread over the bees for mite protection not to feed the

honeybees. Unless of course you'd rather kill the mites with poisons and

chemicals.

 

Without help from you many wild honeybee colonies would survive, but many

more would not. If you want your bees to starve, don't feed them anything.

If you want your hives to die out, don't treat or take care of them just

leave them alone so they can fend for themselves naturally. Or use what

nature provides and save most of your honeybee colonies. It's your choice

after all.

 

>> > Hi, What ever happened to natural??? AND, WHY must soy be in

> everything.

>> > Please read about soy --- do bees eat soy naturally? Do they eat

>> > buckwheat?? Do they eat powdered sugar. Saying that you treat them